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So, little by little, the forests were cut down and grassy meadows, full of bright colored flowers, took their place. Houses were built and the people were rich and happy. Yet there were still many cruel men and bad people in the land. Sometimes, too, floods came and drowned the cattle and covered the fields with sand, or salt water. In such times, food was very scarce.
We struck the Darling River in lat. 29 degrees 37 minutes S. and in E. long. 145 degrees 33 minutes, and traced it down for about sixty-six miles in a direct line to the S.W. If I might hazard an opinion from appearance, to whatever part of the interior it leads, its source must be far to the N.E. or N. The capacity of its channel, and the terrific floods that must sometimes rage in it, would argue that it is influenced by tropical rains, which alone would cause such floods.
We have in New England many villages almost exclusively of farmers, villages where the old-time settlers gathered together for defence against the Indians, and for the protection of houses and stock and store from river floods.
At Port Darwin it had been regularly 87 and 89 degrees in the day, and 80 degrees at night. The squall gave but slight warning of its approach, and four hours afterwards the mutinous assemblage of clouds had wholly disappeared from the heavens, leaving nothing to stay the advent of light which came pouring itself in floods of molten glory over the cloudless sky, as the morning broke.
Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers Next day I planned an excursion to the so-called Dirt Glacier, the most interesting to Indians and steamer men of all the Stickeen glaciers from its mysterious floods. I left the steamer Gertrude for the glacier delta an hour or two before sunset.
As in great floods in India, the tiger and the leopard, the cobra and the deer, may all be seen huddled together on patches of rising ground, their mutual enmity forgotten in the common danger, so no one paid the slightest attention to the body of Englishmen who so suddenly joined the crowd. "Sheathe your cutlasses, my lads," Dick said. "There's no more fighting to be done.
She gave cut this information in floods of bright talk she would pop a little bit of it into comments over a view of the Rialto, Venice, and, whilst she was brightly describing Balmoral Castle, she would say that her ideal husband would he one who could get her received at the British Court.
"'What have we done, what have we done! she repeated, and I felt against me, her floods of black hair, her warm cheek which was fragrant with eau de Nanon. "'What is it? What can it be? "'It is.... and she murmured something in my ear. "'No! I said, stupefied. 'Are you quite sure? "'Am I quite sure! "I was thunderstruck. "'You don't seem much pleased, she said sharply.
Here and there in the hill country one comes upon blind gullies fronted by high stony barriers. These head also for the heart of the mountains; their distinction is that they never get anywhere. All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods.
But this system of moving water must gradually produce valleys, by carrying away stones and earthy matter in their floods; and those valleys would be changing according to the softness, and hardness, destructability or indestructability of the solid parts below.
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